Extremist politics divided this conservative California community. What will it take to turn the tide?

Redding resident Sirion Yates prepares to place his ballot inside an official ballot drop box as others wait in line to vote in-person at the Shasta county clerk and elections office in Redding, California, on 8 November 2022. Photograph: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

• This is the second of three stories on the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election in Shasta county, a region of 180,000 people in northern California that has emerged as a center of the election denial movement and hotbed for far-right politics. Read the first one here.

Tim Garman is worried about Shasta county. His community has been in the midst of a dizzying lurch to the far right, gaining national attention for its rowdy and radical politics and full-throated embrace of election conspiracy theories.